Lovely Antique Brass 6 Inch Folding Ruler hand-painted porclain This is a luscious vintage

This is a luscious vintage 1976 gouache and pencil on board rendering of a Rockwell Sabeliner 75A corporate jet

One last one from a number of drawings I've list by the same (surely quite young) maker

with a couple of small holes in the exterior fabric of the larger--not leaking due to second layer of fabric underneath

clearly made just for it

This is a an old Japanase merchant ledger book that I believe would be known as a daifuku-cho

Lovely Antique Brass 6 Inch Folding Ruler hand-painted porclain This is a luscious vintageThe tinier the ruler the better as far as I'm concerned all the better for measuring little things! I've had a couple of 6 inch folding rulers made of bone, but don't believe I've ever coming across a brass one, and this one feels quite special. No mark anywhere on it that I can see, and with just the 1st and last inch divided into quarters, the rest just into halves. 19th c. I believe, and I imagine made for a very specific purpose, perhaps for an